From kde-core-devel Fri Nov 12 11:49:15 2004 From: Anders Lund Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 11:49:15 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: file:/// Message-Id: <200411121249.15754.anders () alweb ! dk> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=110025979321940 On Friday 12 November 2004 06:51, Andras Mantia wrote: > On Friday 12 November 2004 00:29, George Staikos wrote: > > On Thursday 11 November 2004 15:14, Andras Mantia wrote: > > > break some applications that check if an url starts with "file:" > > > and remove that string from the url. > > > > ///foo is still a valid unix path anyway. I don't think it would > > really break any sane app. > > Then only the visual noise remains. One step would be that prettyURL > returns file:/ and prettyURL(0, KURL::StripFileProtocol) returns only > the path (as it does now). But I don't think that would "solve" the > Konqueror's location bar case, but should do it in other cases where > the URL is displayed just for informational purposes. I really don't see the point of hiding it. If the standard that we agreed on following says the correct URL is file:///whatever, then so it is. Hiding it would make following the standard senseless. I agree that 'file:///' looks silly and has no meaning, but we still agreed to follow a standard that says that it should look like that. The only sane way to change it is to work on getting the standard changed. -anders -- Homepage: http://www.alweb.dk Jabber address: anderslund@jabber.dk